Stovepipe-retaining device



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E. G. LUPKIN. STOVEPIPE RETAINING DEVICE.

No. 532,384. Patented Jan. 8, 189-5.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

EDWIN G. LUF KIN, OF GLENWOOD, IOWA.

STOVEPlPE-RETAINING DEVICE.

Y PEGIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,384, dated January 8, 1895.

A plication filed February 26, 1894. Serialllo. 501 ,548. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN G. LUFKIN, of Glenwood, county-of Mills, State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stovepipe-Retaining Devices, of which the following is a specification, refer ence being had to theaccompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap, convenient, serviceable, effective and readily adjustable device, for retaining a I angle with the shank proper, as shown in dotstove pipe in"place as in a chimney breast, for example.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure l is a side elevation of a section of stove pipe fitted with my device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of a portion of chimney breast with the pipe in place, showing my device in position for retaining the pipe, and showing in dotted lines the book when in the non-retaining position. Fig. 3 is a perspective view.

Referring to the figures on the drawings: 1 indicates a portion of chimney breast, illus trated as a thing to which the pipe is to be fastened, and 2 a section of stove pipe adapted to be be secured thereto.

3 indicates a collar which is ordinarily used for closing the joint between the breast andpipe.

4indi cates the shank of my retaining device which consists preferably of apiece of wire having on one end a retaining device, as for example, an eyelet 5 bent substantially at right angles thereto. At the other extremity a hook 6 of strong resiliency or contractility is provided. It is bent normally to an acute ted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings. Itis provided witha curved snub end 7 which per-- mits its being bent against its resilient action to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 3 of the drawings, by being forcibly pried against the inner side of the breast. When in this position the hook, by its resiliency, draws the pipe strongly toward the breast and holds it rigidly and securely in position.

In some instances a plurality of retainers might be employed, but it is sufficient for the present purpose to illustrate and describe one,

since each is complete in itself.

For inserting the hook in place it is only necessary to punch a hole 8 in the pipe at the required distance from its ends and pass the retainer through it from the hook toward the eyelet.

What I claim is 1. Thecombinationwith a stove pipe and aperture therein, of a retaining device consisting of a shank, a retaining eyelet at one EDWIN e. LUFKIN.

' Witnesses:

CHAs. RATHKE, L. F. SHARPE. 

